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[Trailer] Stomp on Tokyo While Wrestling Kaiju With ‘Dawn of The Monsters’ in 2022
Old school gamers of kaiju mayhem remember SNK’s King of the Monsters games. While they weren’t the deepest fighters, they did give us the dream of battling other kaiju in one-on-one battles. We were subsequently spoiled with several other games in that style, notably Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee and its sequels, along with the Incognito Entertainment’s War of the Monsters.
So why am I telling you all of this? Well, 13AM Games and publisher WayForward have announced that their beat-’em-up Dawn of the Monsters will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam in early 2022. Much like its predecessors, Dawn of the Monsters sees players take control of monsters in battles against other monsters. The story sees you using your chosen monster to take on the evil Nephilim, a horde of creatures looking to destroy Earth.
According to the preview by IGN, the game has four playable monsters for you to choose from, with the designs done by legendary Godzilla character creator Shiji Nishikawa and Godzilla comic book artist Matt Frank. Each kaiju has an array of attacks and finishing moves to battle over a dozen enemy types alongside the enemy kaiju. You can also customize your kaiju, and the game will support two player co-op across 35 missions.
In a blast from the past, developer atooi will release today Dementium: The Ward for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The first-person horror shooter originally got its start on the Nintendo DS back in 2007, before making its way to the 3DS in 2015, and finally landing on the Switch last October.
The PlayStation version of Dementium offers up “crunchy retro” and revamped HD display modes (presumably, this is similar to the free update the Switch version received last year), and has been “built from the ground up for the big screen”. Obviously, the game will lose its touchscreen capabilities from the Nintendo consoles, but will still run at a silky 60 frames per second.
Dementium: The Ward centres around William Redmoor, a man with amnesia, who wakes up in a seemingly abandoned medical ward. He soon finds out that he’s not quite as alone as he initially thought, as demonic creatures are roaming the hospital. Equipped with a flashlight and a nightstick, William must not only fend off the creatures, but also solve puzzles and find the exit and escape.
No word on if the sequel, Dementium II (which was also originally released in 2007 for the Nintendo DS), will be given the same treatment.
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